RedBaronRX7
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This is a good short article about guns, enjoy.
The Price of Gun Control?By Dan Baum (Harper's Magazine)
The Price of Gun Control?By Dan Baum (Harper's Magazine)
The Price of Gun Control- good article
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McBear
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Very good article.
MrAmbassador
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Yes a good one. It's been said many times.
The spoon is not responsible for obesity. But in the hands of an irresponsible eater it can be deadly.
The spoon is not responsible for obesity. But in the hands of an irresponsible eater it can be deadly.
Excellent! Especially when he talks about how gun control is about more than just guns, it's the values that it represents and how many people are insulted if you want to take away their guns because they see it as an attack on American individualism.
From Harpers too. I always saw that magazine as pretty liberal.
His earlier article is a good read too although it's lengthy so don't start it if you're procratinating and supposed to be doing something else. It's about his conceal carry journey and he is surprisingly candid about many things.
I'll let anyone interested read it before I enact any more of the article.
From Harpers too. I always saw that magazine as pretty liberal.
His earlier article is a good read too although it's lengthy so don't start it if you're procratinating and supposed to be doing something else. It's about his conceal carry journey and he is surprisingly candid about many things.
I'll let anyone interested read it before I enact any more of the article.
66Park
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There are more people than you might think (and a few magazines as well, evidently) that view themselves as liberals on most issues, but have strong feelings about the validity of their second amendment rights and view the general Democratic party stance on guns as very misguided.
McBear
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The view of liberals toward guns is broken down into two distinct groups. Those from concentrated population areas and those from rural, less concentrated population areas. You find many fewer Democrats from middle America, the South or the West that are anti gun, though we all get lumped into the "anti-gun" bucket because we don't toe a specific line.
Now Democrats who live in areas with large cities tend to see guns differently, as they read daily bad news and proximity does change perspective for many.
It is liberal, read the second to last paragraph: The damage caused by gun control he is talking about is is damage to the democratic party and it's progressive/socialist agenda (health care, women's rights, climate change). Not the thousands of Americans who have died at the hands of violent criminals while disarmed themselves by antigunners.
So while he makes some good points about gun control, the only real point he's making is that it's a non-winner for the socialist agenda, that's all.
66Park
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Since I've always lived in or near a major city, and thus have been around crime and have been the victim of an attempted murder which I barely survived, I think I should have the right to protect myself. So should everybody else. My only point is that many conservatives paint all people with liberal views as anti-gun, and it just isn't the case. I don't come here to argue politics, though, but to share my interest in Smith and Wesson, so I'll just leave it at that.
The "liberals" of today are not affiliated with the democrat party at all, most are Libertarian. True liberals favor individual freedom, freedom of action, less gov't control, etc etc. Does that sound like the democrat party of today?
That's why I don't call them liberal, they're leftists/marxists. There are NO liberals on the left.
That's why I don't call them liberal, they're leftists/marxists. There are NO liberals on the left.
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